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Hunt, Chris and Cunningham, Mavernie (2018) Dark Light. [Installation, Performance, Video]

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Creators:

Hunt, Chris and Cunningham, Mavernie

Description/Abstract:

‘Dark Light’ is a film installation and spoken performance, made in collaboration with Mavernie Cunningham and performed as part of the Whitstable Biennale of Film and Performance Satellite Programme in June 2018.

The work continues the research from House 1, (exhibited at ‘Art and Sound’, Leicester de Montfort University, June 2017), and explores themes of departure, migration, race, slavery and nostalgia. The sculptural forms within which the screens sit are based on the Empire Windrush, a ship instrumental in bringing to the UK people from Jamaica in the 1950s, and the films contained therein play further on these themes.

The work was developed as a response to the poem ‘Remembrance’ by Friedrich Hölderlin. It reflects on the hidden, underlying history of slavery that is concealed within the poem’s image of Bordeaux (a slave port until the 19th century), the politics of black hair, and draws upon a cautionary children’s tale learned by rote by Jamaican schoolchildren in the 1930s, amongst other things.

Item Type:

Art/Design Item

Official URL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0yA4IN6Aow&featur...

Date:

10 June 2018

Chris Hunt, Mavernie Cunningham

Material:

ceramic, film, performance

Measurements or Duration:

14 minutes

Funders:

UCA Research Office

Locations / Venues:

Location

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Free Range - Experimental Music, Film and Poetry, Canterbury, Kent, UK

6 December 2018

The Summerhouse, Warwick Road, Whitstable, Kent, UK

10 June 2018

Related Exhibitions:

Whitstable Biennale of Film and Performance 2018, Free Range - Experimental Music, Film and Poetry in Canterbury

Schools:

School of Architecture & Design

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Depositing User:

Mr Chris Hunt

Date Deposited:

25 Jun 2018 14:14

Last Modified:

12 Dec 2018 13:38

Hunt, Chris and Cunningham, Mavernie

Art/Design Categories:

Installation, Performance, Video

URI:

https://uca-9.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/4832

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House 2. (deposited 28 Feb 2018 14:29)
- Dark Light. (deposited 25 Jun 2018 14:14) [Currently Displayed]
  - Dark Light. (deposited 05 Jun 2019 14:45)

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